Chicken

First taste of chicken! But Mom really messed it up because she didn't mix enough veggies with the chicken and they made it VERY clear that it was too dry for their liking. See photos below. Thankfully I got it right the next day and they love it now (when mixed with lots of veggies.)

1st Haircuts!

The boys had their 1st haircuts! Mostly because Mason desperately needed one with all that hair he has - it was growing over his ears already! Daddy just does not approve of boys with long hair, so there was no waiting until the 1st birthday. Their great grandmother Little Muzz had 1st haircutting honors. But talk about a tough job with squirmy, wiggling, moving targets! Now if only I had remembered to get the after photos when they were finished...

Mason's 1st haircut photos






Ethan's 1st haircut photos

Jumping Fun at Tati & 2Bs!

Tati and 2B got the boys jumperoos for their visit and they gave them their absolute seal of approval! :)

Army Crawling

Ethan started to army crawl today! But of course we didn't have our video camera ready to capture it so you will have to take a rain check for that one! But we'll work on it!!

1st flight!

Here we are on the morning of our first flight before we left the house - if you look closely you might even be able to see the airplane shirts they wore for the occasion. And you can see them in their new car seats!




However, these are the only photos of the day! We were too busy and too frazzled to take any others as we had major flight delays and other chaos that made the trip not so fun and made photo taking the last thing on our minds. The boys actually did amazingly well on the flight, but the craziness of the day was a bit much for everyone. It took us about 12 1/2 hours total, which is a lot for two babies (and two parents too) since it should not have taken nearly that long. But we made it!!!

Cookies with Santa

No cookies actually because we arrived to the neighborhood event too late and the cookies were gone already! You would think that living directly across the street from such an event would give us an advantage, but it took place during most of afternoon nap, so what could we do?

But we did have our first encounter with Santa! And lesson learned: taking two babies who have just woken up from their naps and making them wait for their bottles because we didn't want them to puke all over Santa, was not such a great idea...

These two usually love ALL people (so far anyway, we haven't really hit that stranger anxiety stage), but not when they haven't had their bottles, and in Mason's case - even though I gave Santa a bottle to feed him to try to turn that frown upside down, Mason was beyond hungry and too freaked out by then to warm up to Santa. If you look really close, you'll see that even in the photo where Santa is trying to give him a bottle he still has huge tears in those eyes and needed mom to immediately rescue him to give him the rest of that bottle. Ethan took it fairly in stride except when his brother first started crying and then he cried too, but otherwise he didn't mind the big man in red so much.

Infant Carriers - a sad farewell

Today was the last trip in the Infant Carriers and our trusty Snap-n-Go double stroller. These were incredibly useful baby items and ones that we will sorely miss. Now we will have to buckle and unbuckle babies every time we take them somewhere and that is really a task as they are incredibly squirmy these days. But the Infant Carrier is borderline too small for Mr. Mason, so we have decided to move both of them along to their big boy car seats. Here are some photos of their last trip with mom and dad in their infant seats. The next time you see them in the car they will look all grown up (sniff, sniff).

What?!! You say I am too big for my infant carrier? What exactly are you implying?...

Gabby and the boys in front of the tree




Last car ride in our infant carriers